Location
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Jamaica Room
Start Date
1-5-2003 1:30 PM
End Date
1-5-2003 4:30 PM
Description
The growth and opportunity that the space industry presents in today’s world is dramatic. Quietly and unassumingly over the last decade, the industry has begun to integrate itself into the mainstream fabric and economies of most nations throughout the world.
From contributing much of the infrastructure and backbone necessary for global communications, to providing new resources to help farmers increase their crop yields, to providing new efficiencies and capabilities to a whole host of industries through the commercial application of space technologies, space has become pervasive in our everyday lives. This paper provides a brief history of the industry; its direction and significant trends are reviewed in the context of near and future market opportunities for investors
Also, in the last few years, new space businesses have watched the emergence of a recognition and gradual acceptance by traditional financial markets of the attractiveness of investment opportunities in space ventures. Capital markets are cautious, but appear to be adopting new structures to meet the challenges for financing the infrastructure required for the next decade of space businesses. The present state of the space finance community, as well as new approaches to meeting the challenges of the next decade in financing new space ventures are also addressed.
Paper Session II-B - Space Industry Overview: The Outlook For Space Finance
Radisson Resort at the Port, Convention Center, Jamaica Room
The growth and opportunity that the space industry presents in today’s world is dramatic. Quietly and unassumingly over the last decade, the industry has begun to integrate itself into the mainstream fabric and economies of most nations throughout the world.
From contributing much of the infrastructure and backbone necessary for global communications, to providing new resources to help farmers increase their crop yields, to providing new efficiencies and capabilities to a whole host of industries through the commercial application of space technologies, space has become pervasive in our everyday lives. This paper provides a brief history of the industry; its direction and significant trends are reviewed in the context of near and future market opportunities for investors
Also, in the last few years, new space businesses have watched the emergence of a recognition and gradual acceptance by traditional financial markets of the attractiveness of investment opportunities in space ventures. Capital markets are cautious, but appear to be adopting new structures to meet the challenges for financing the infrastructure required for the next decade of space businesses. The present state of the space finance community, as well as new approaches to meeting the challenges of the next decade in financing new space ventures are also addressed.
